Jet-pipe-cleaning attachment.



H. E. WERNER.

JET PIP?J CLEANING ATTAGHMBNT. APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, 1911.

1,018,020. Q Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

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HENRY E. WERNER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIG-NOR VT E.l GOLDMAN & CO.INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS.

J ET-PIPE-CLEANING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Feb. 2o, 1912.

Application filed July 10, 1911. Serial No. 637,845.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. IVERNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Jet-Pipe-Cleaning Attachments,of which the following is a specification.

In thevarious uses of jet-pipes of the kind in which a pipe is providedwith a series of jetting-nozzles, these nozzles are liable to becomeclogged with foreign or sedimentary matter carried by the fluid jettedthrough the pipes. rllhis is particularly the case in bottle-washingmachines, for use with which I have more immediately devised my improvedcleaning-attachment, and especially for use in the machine forming thesubject of the pending application for Letters Patent of J. T. H. Paul,Serial No. 579,470, Iiled August 29th, 1910.

In the machine referred to a tank is employed, divided into a series ofcompartments for containing the cleansing water, which is pumped fromthe compartments through jet-pipes supported to extend across the latterin sets for jetting the water into and against bottles supported ininverted position on an endless carrier caused to travel intermittentlyto bring the bottles at intervals into and arrest them in registrationwith the jets for the cleansing action of the water therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken plan view showing aset of jetpipes on their support' and equipped with my nozzle-cleaningimprovement; Fig. 2 is a broken and partly sectional view showing thesame in end elevation with inverted bottles on the carrier andregistering with the nozzles; Fig. 3 is an enlarged broken section online 3, Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an enlarged broken section on line 4, Fig. 3,and Fig. 5 is an enlarged section on line 5, Fig. 3.

My cleaning device comprises, as the preferred embodiment of myinvention, a rod or bar extending lengthwise in the jet-tube and havingpins extending at intervals from it to register with thejetting-nozzles, with means for working the rod or bar back and forthrelative to the inner ends of the nozzles and thereby reciprocate thepins in the latter for clearing them.

Only so much of the aforesaid machine is illustrated in the drawingsherein as to enable the application thereto of my improvement to bereadily understood.

Endless chains forminga conveyer (not shown), with racks 6 extending atintervals betweenthe chains forsupporting bott-les 7 in invertedposition, are supported to travel onfa track S'lengthwise of the tank`(not shown) on suitable frame-work 9. Below the path over the tank ofthe bottles, across each of several of the tank compartments extendsfrom a header 10, into which a pump (not shown) discharges, a set ofparallel pipes 11 provided with longitudinal series of nozzles 12. Thesets of jet-pipes are supported on beams 13 upon the frame-work 9. Ineach pipe 11 extends lengthwise thereof a bar 14 with a longitudinalseries of pins 15 projecting from it to register with the nozzles 12.Stufing-boxes 16 depend from openings lat intervals in the bottom ofeach pipe, and about the two extreme pipes of the set are fastened,adjacent to the stuflingboxes thereof, yokes 17 forming bearings 18 forrock-shafts 19, which pass transversely across and beneath the set ofpipes. Crankarms 20 extend at intervals from each rockshaft 19 and haveconnected to their outer ends links 21, those on each rock-shaftcarrying a rod 22 with heads 23 upon it, and from these heads rise stems24 through the respective stuffing-boxes with which they register, thestems being screwed into the bar 14.

For operating the rock-shafts 19 simultaneously they are connectedthrough the medium of arms 25, 25 depending inclinedly from theircorresponding ends, and a reciprocable bar 26, to which the lower endsof the arms 25 are pivoted, with an operating lever 27 fulcrumed at oneend on a support 28 forming a bearing for the bar 26, which is pivotallyconnected with the lever between its ends. By Working the lever back andforth, which operation may be performed at required intervals, theshafts 19 are rocked and thereby actuate the rods 22 to reciprocate thestems 24 and bars 14, thus working the pins 15 in the nozzles to clearthem of clogging matter.

lllVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Incombination with a jet-pipe, a nozl from the bar to register with thenozzles, openings in the pipe provided with stuffingn boxes, stemsextending through the stuffingboxes and Connected at their inner endsWith the bar, a rock-shaft supported on the pipe, connections betweenthe rock-shaft and stems for reciprocating the stems by rooking saidshaft, and means for operating the rock-shaft, for the purpose setforth.

2. In combination With a set of jet-pipes, a nozzle-cleaning devicetherefor', comprising bars in the pipes bodily-movable back uand forthrelative to the nozzles, pins eX- tending from the bars to register Withthe nozzles, openings in the pipes provided with Copies of this patentmay be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner ofPatents, Washington, D. G.

